Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland

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Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland PC DL ( June 25, 1937 - January 5, 2019 ) was a British politician . He was MP for Bishop Auckland , County Durham , in the House of Commons from 1979 to 2005 .

Foster was a member of the Labor Party . From 1985 to 1995 he was also the party's parliamentary executive director . However, after Tony Blair took over this post in 1994, he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , with the promise of Blair that if the party grew stronger he would get a seat in the British Cabinet. In 1997, when Labor won the election, he became Deputy Parliamentary Secretary of State after David Clark . He resigned after just two days, and later reported that Blair had failed to keep his promise. Parliament has become the "lapdog of the Prime Minister" and that Blair only makes important decisions in a small circle of his confidants. During the British general election in 2005 , he resigned from his active time as a politician. On May 13, 2005, it was announced that Foster would be promoted to a Life Peer . In June 2005 he was then appointed to the Peerage of the United Kingdom .

Foster was the son of Joseph Foster and Ethel Maud. In 1972 he married his wife Florence Anne Bulmer, with whom he has a daughter and three sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THE HOUSE OF COMMONS constituencies BEGINNING WITH "B". (No longer available online.) Leighrayment.com, July 14, 2011, archived from the original on August 10, 2009 ; accessed on August 21, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leighrayment.com
  2. ↑ a b c Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland on thepeerage.com , accessed August 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ BBC: First Ministerial Resignation. 1997, accessed on August 21, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Hans Hoyng: Good-natured uncle. Der Spiegel , January 18, 1999, accessed on August 21, 2012 (German).
  5. ↑ Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland. www.parliament.uk, accessed on August 21, 2012 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Foster, Derek, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1937
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2019